Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

A little about Frederick Kicke's history. He was born in Wales in 1901 and worked in shipyards until he was 17, when he moved to Australia, where his older brother already lived. He studied at the University of Adelaide and graduated as a mining engineer. He worked in the region until the outbreak of war, when he enlisted. After the war, he lived in Egypt, where he worked on archaeological excavations until 1950, when he moved to Malaysia. There he married Zainab Kicke and had three daughters, Maria, Zainab and Júlia. With the outbreak of the Korean War, he moved to Brazil, in the state of Minas Gerais, where he initially settled in Ritapolis, working in a cassiterite mine. He then moved to the neighboring city of São João del Rei, where he had another daughter, Elizabeth, and a son, Peter, and where he planned and built a tin processing plant at the steel company Companhia Industrial Fluminense. After that, he went to the remote state of Rondônia, in the middle of the Amazon rainforest, exploring thousands of kilometers of jungle in search of new mineral deposits. After many years of effort, he retired and worked as an English teacher for the locals until his death in 1978.